Makino Tomitarō

The young Makino Tomitarō

Makino Tomitarō ( Japanese 牧野 富 太郎 Makino Tomitarō ) (born April 24, 1862 in Sakawa , Kōchi Prefecture , † January 18, 1957 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Makino ". The abbreviation “ Mak. " in use.

Life

Makino Tomitarō was the son of a sake brewer. He grew up as a half-orphan in Sakawa. At the age of 10 he attended a private school and three years later switched to a state school. Even as a child, he was interested in the plants that he collected in the surrounding mountains. He tried very hard to learn the English language .

In 1880 he became a teacher at the elementary school in his hometown for a year. During this time he wrote his first scientific essay on botany . In 1881 he went to Tokyo to buy a microscope and some botanical books. In 1884 he moved entirely to Tokyo. At Tokyo University he presented his illustrated book on botany to professor of botany, Yatabe. His first work was published in 1887. In 1890 he married.

In 1893 he became a research assistant at the university and in 1912 a lecturer, which he did until 1939.

He published a total of six volumes on botany, in which he treated a total of 6000 species . 1000 of them were first descriptions of Makino Tomitarō. In 1948 he was given the great honor of being able to give the Tennō Hirohito himself a lecture on botany. In 1936 he received the Asahi Prize . After his death at the age of 94, his house was converted into the Makino Memorial Garden , a memorial to the "father of Japanese botany".

In 1957 Makino was posthumously awarded the Order of Culture .

Honors

The asteroid (6606) Makino was named after him. The moss genus Makinoa Miyake and the algae genus Makinoella Okada are also named after him.

He also became an honorary citizen of Tokyo.

Works

• Makino shokubutsugaku zenshū (Makino's Book of Botany) Sōsakuin, 1936
• Makino Shin Nihon Shokubutsu Zukan (Makino's New Illustrated Flora of Japan) Hokuryuukan, 1989, ISBN 4-8326-0010-9

literature

• Rou Hikawa: Makino Tomitaro . Popurasha, Tokyo 1980, ISBN 4-591-00224-1 , ( Kodomo no denki zenshū 39).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 牧野 富 太郎 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 18, 2012 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Commons : Makino Tomitarō  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Makino Tomitarō at the IPNI
• Biography and photos of Makino Tomitarō (in Japanese )

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Makino is the family name, Tomitarō the first name.